Consistent Nursing Presence Through Questionably Unprecedented Times.

Election season. Those words evoke sighs, spur eye rolls, emblazon debates, strain relationships, spark activism, and fan hope. The Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing team works months ahead of each issue.

Ruthlessly Subtract to Build Oncology Programs and Add Value.

Building modern healthcare programs and systems caring for populations requires expert skills in strategy, finance, people operations, workflow, evaluation, and more. Build often connotes adding services and people, but it al.

The Impact of Independent Chemotherapy Prescribing by Advanced Practice Providers on Patient Safety and Clinician Satisfaction.

Background: Literature on advanced practice providers (APPs) prescribing chemotherapy independently, without physician cosignature, is limited.

Objectives: This project assessed safety and provider satisfaction for an existing independent APP chemotherapy prescribing privilege at a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center.

Methods: Rate of Reporting to Improve Safety and Quality events associated with APPs with independent chemotherapy prescribing privileges was compared to that of physicians during a three-year period.

A New Paradigm for Nurse Leader Decision-Making Within Complex Adaptive Systems.

Health care is a complex and ever-changing environment for nurse leaders and other health care industry decision-makers. The prevailing leadership and decision-making models, rooted in Industrial Age principles, often struggle to adapt to the complexities of modern health care. This article explores the foundations of complexity science and its application to health care decision-making, highlighting the importance of understanding systems dynamics and embracing complexity.

Nursing's Primary Commitment Embedded in the Quintuple Aim.

Anecdotally, from personal experience as a growing editor and in talking with experienced editors, rejecting evidence-based project manuscripts that do not include patient outcomes is routine. Phrased differently, it is typic.

Faith and Science: Sacred Decision-Making in Cancer Care.

Many people view health, wellness, and illness through a lens of religion and spirituality (R&S), modern science, and culture. Faith and science are not dichotomous in health care; they are complementary and even intercon.

For the (Rigorous) Love of Oncology Nursing.

Although the nursing profession has seen significant changes, the core of nursing has never changed. It has always been and will always be about serving all people with holistic care in whatever ways they need at the time.

Artificial Intelligence: Basics, Impact, and How Nurses Can Contribute.

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to cancer care has the potential to transform and enhance nursing practice and patient outcomes, from cancer prevention and screening through treatment, survivorship, and end-of-life care.

Cancer Prevention and Early Detection: A Changing Field With an Unchanging Goal.

Modifiable risk factors such as tobacco and alcohol use, obesity, sun exposure, and infections account for 40%-50% of all new cancer diagnoses and all cancer deaths in the United States (American Cancer Society [ACS], 2023).

Advocacy and Collaboration: Advancing Cancer Prevention and Screening.

Background: Cancer prevention and screening is a significant part of the cancer care continuum. Nurses are trusted professionals who can bring stakeholders together and serve diverse groups.

Objectives: This article describes how nurses can advance cancer prevention and screening initiatives in industry, education, legislative advocacy, research, survivorship, and program development and support.

Low-Dose Computed Tomography: Effects of Oncology Nurse Navigation on Lung Cancer Screening.

Background: Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening is an evidence-based and reimbursable strategy to decrease lung cancer and all-cause mortality in qualifying patients, but there remains low use and variation in providers' LDCT screening, ordering, and referring knowledge.

Objectives: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to examine the effects of oncology nurse navigation on assisting patients and ensuring optimal LDCT lung cancer screening.

Methods: Oncology nurse navigators conducted LDCT provider education and navigated 133 eligible patients to LDCT during a five-month intervention time period.

Social Media Use in Cancer Care.

Objective: To describe the increasing professional use of social media within oncology health care practice.

Data Sources: Peer-reviewed and lay publications.

Conclusion: Social media has changed the communication landscape over the last 15 years.

The rise of blogs in nursing practice.

The number of blogs and related online activities continues to grow exponentially each year. Patients increasingly are turning to the Internet for personalized, timely, and relevant health information; blogs remain a large source of that information. Nurses and other healthcare professionals can harness the informational, educational, networking, and supportive power of blogs, as well, and should understand how to access and use blogs for professional use.

Assessing cancer-related learning needs of Texas nurses.

Background: Given the growing number of cancer survivors, all nurses must have current knowledge and skills to provide competent cancer care. Accordingly, access to evidence-based educational opportunities designed to promote ongoing competency must be ensured. Program offerings and services should be based on a systematic and periodic approach to provide appropriate programming that meets learners' self-identified needs, priorities, and self-reported gaps in existing knowledge and practice.